Workshops

Empowering ERGs for Greater ROI

How We Help

1. ERG-Specialized Coaching

We focus on the unique challenges and leadership development ERG leaders face, turning their experience into a strategic asset for your organization.

2. Business-Driven ERGs

Our workshops empower ERG leaders to align their work with your company’s business goals—enhancing retention, engagement, and innovation with measurable impact.

3. ERGs as Strategic Assets

We convert ERGs from budget line items to high-value drivers of business results, ensuring your programs solve business challenges and clearly demonstrate ROI.

4. Data-Backed Results

We teach ERG leaders to track, measure, and communicate the metrics that matter—proving their direct value to leadership in hiring, retention, and market growth.

The Result: ERGs that advance inclusion goals and business objectives

HR, Culture, L&D Leaders and Executive Sponsors ….

Maximize Your ERG Investment and Watch Their Impact Amplify

The Challenge:

Employee Resource Groups are perceived as “nice to have ”“when they lack clear alignment between initiatives and your organization’s key business priorities.

The result: Believed to be more about optics with unclear ROI rather than a driver of business performance .

Round table with five people working on documents and laptops, with the word 'ERG' in the center and various sketches of charts and graphs on the floor around the table.

Workshop Options

The Power Hour Virtual Workshop

Two women participating in a video conference call on a large screen, with multiple participants joining from different locations, shown through a grid of video feeds

Perfect For:

  • ERG leaders ready to evolve ERG work into career development opportunities

  • Connecting ERG work to business objectives

  • Organizations wanting to improve ROI on ERG investment

  • Foundational work for ERG effectiveness and leadership development

  • Intensive half day workshop building on “Power Hour” teachings

  • Aligning Initiatives with C-Suite Priorities

ERGs: The Hidden Leadership Accelerator

Your ERG leaders are behind the scenes making culture happen, and perhaps unconsciously building the leadership skills needed to advance – unaware of how to sharpen and articulate them.

Their true business potential is left untapped, their development unrecognized, while organizations miss out on the chance to harness their power to drive bottom-line results.

This “power hour” not only guides them through a framework to step from behind the scenes but provides a glimpse into aligning their work with organizational objectives.

Through the compelling story of two professionals on divergent career paths , we reveal how ERG involvement directly closes the critical "Leadership Skills Gap."

Participants leave with our proprietary 3C Framework (Competency, Connection, Communication), a strategic tool to:

  • Intentionally build skills in strategic thinking, cross-functional influence, and managing without authority.

  • Amplify impact by mapping ERG activities to what’s important to the organization

  • Articulate ERG leadership in ways that resonate in career conversations using storytelling and data

Schedule a Workshop Strategy Discussion

The Impact Incubator: Half-Day Intensive

ERG Workshop Impact Incubator with white board and sticky notes

Perfect For:

Seasoned ERG Leaders:

  • ready to focus on translating ERG work into a deliberate step forward in your career

  • motivated by impact and data; eager to learn to connect ERG’s activities to business KPIs, measuring success, and articulating value in the language of executives.

Forward Thinking Organizations Ready To:

  • make ERGs an integral part of your business strategy with a clear and measurable return on investment

  • increase retention of top talent through a tangible commitment to career development of ERG leaders, showing them a clear and supported path for growth within the company

Ready to unlock the full potential of your leaders?

Designed for:

ERG leaders and organizations who recognize the strategic potential of ERGs and are committed to unlocking it

While the “Power Hour” session opens eyes, the incubator elevates careers and enhances business performance. Through facilitated discussion we:

  • guide your ERG leaders through leadership self-assessment to identify competency gaps and ERG opportunities to fill them

  • establish a direct connection between organizational impact and key business drivers, demonstrating readiness to deliver measurable outcomes.

  • apply our 3C Framework (Competency, Connection, Communication) to elevate ERG leaders personal leadership brand and ERG effectiveness

Key Outcomes:

For the Organization:

  • Leadership pipeline: tangible career development opportunities through real-world leadership experiences

  • Additional source of innovation: offering business insights that help with product development, market penetration and expansion

  • Enhanced change readiness: empowered ERG leaders who help influence and mobilize their networks during periods of organizational transformation

For ERG Leaders:

  • Strategic Relationship Mapping: establish targeted networks with decision-makers and influencers

  • Executive Communication Skills: practice translating ERG achievements into leadership language through role-play and feedback

  • 90-Day Action Plan: Leave with a personalized roadmap toward career advancement strategies tailored to the needs of the organization, the tools to track progress and demonstrate momentum

A Framework for Outcome Based Initiatives and Career Growth

ERG Impact Accelerator

Transform your ERGs from activity-focused groups into strategic business partners that deliver measurable impact on organizational goals.

Our interactive, half-day workshop equips participants with the tools to design, prioritize, and measure initiatives that deliver tangible business outcomes.

We facilitate a strategic shift in mindset from focusing on activities to prioritizing outcomes and present an established framework to align ERG initiatives with executive-level priorities.

Participants will leave with actionable tools to align ERG work with strategic priorities, establish meaningful metrics, and build compelling business cases for continued investment.

Workshop Objectives

  • Think Like a Business Leader by identifying your organization's critical pain points and strategic priorities

  • Design High-Impact Initiatives using the 6-step IMPACT Framework (Identify, Map, Propose, Align, Create, Track) to connect ERG strengths to business needs

  • Prioritize for Maximum ROI using a Strategic Impact Assessment and a 2x2 Prioritization Grid to focus on "quick wins" and key strategic projects

  • Build a Compelling Business Case to secure executive sponsorship, budget, and cross-functional support

  • Measure What Matters by establishing quantitative and qualitative systems to track KPIs, demonstrate value, and calculate ROI

  • Communicate Your Value through executive-level reporting and storytelling that humanizes data and highlights strategic contributions

Impact for ERGs and Careers:

  • Develop In-Demand Skills: Master highly transferable skills in strategic planning, project management, financial management, influencing without authority, and stakeholder engagement

  • Gain Executive Visibility: Learn to communicate your impact in the language of business leaders, raising your profile and creating opportunities for advancement

  • Accelerate Your Career: Leverage your ERG experience as a "build-your-own leadership track” to secure promotions and transition into broader business roles as demonstrated by real-world success stories

Ready to Amplify Your ERGs Impact?

Impact for Organizations:

  • Strengthen Your Talent Pipeline: Improve retention across the board by fostering a culture of opportunity, which reduces costly turnover among high-potential employee.

  • Drive Business Growth: Leverage unique cultural and market insights from your workforce to identify new opportunities and innovate products and services

  • Achieve a Measurable Return on Investment: Justify program investments with clear, quantifiable metrics that connect ERG initiatives directly to improved business outcomes.